David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 May 1999 22:38:41 +0200, Marc Schimmler <mar### [at] icauni-stuttgartde>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi there!
> >
> >I sat down the last evenings and wrote my first macro. Nothing
> >incredible, just a little tool to create realistic nuts (see small
> >example at the bottom).
> >
> >You find the macro and a small tutorial how to use it at:
> >
> >http://www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/nuts.html
> >
> >Any comments are welcome!
> >
> >Marc
> 
> Very good Marc.  I like the use of simple engineering terms as the macro
> parameters.  I can understand why you had difficulty with your "slope" term.
> The english engineering expression for this quantity is "lead", but it is more
> usual in the UK (and I believe in the USA) to use the term "pitch" which is
> 1/lead.
> David

Thanks David! The book about construction of machines I've got are in
german only. Pitch is actually the term I was looking for. I will change
the term slope to pitch in the documentation and maybe in the macro as
well!


Marc
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Marc Schimmler

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